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Sarcastic bluesky post saying [time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]
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Me going back in time to tell the Communists to stop calling the Social Democrats "social fascists" so they don't both die in concentration camps:
Edit: I didnt even read the username, go to https://existentialcomics.com/ hit random and enjoy. Big fan of their work.
I have no idea about History or psychology but this was pretty funny
The SPD were murdering members of the KPD and collaborating with the police. The SPD sided with the Nazis over the communists. One of the prominent communists killed in the purge against the KPD was Rosa Luxemburg, which along with the other communists killed triggered firm opposition to working with the SPD on top of the SPD's support for maintaining the capitalist system.
Speaking of Existential Comics, here they are making the case for why you should read Lenin.
goddamn do those replies on xitter miss the point
They do help prove it, though. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism and The State and Revolution are two of the most important and influential books in the entire Leftist canon, and both are extremely practical to this day, along with countless other works of Lenin.
You are by far the most annoying liberal on lemmy
Thanks, I try. See you in the camps.
The SPD used people like Erich Ludendorff to eliminate Communists. The SPD directly inherited the government from the Prussian King, maintained the interests of the German Empire, and killed Communist political leaders prior to the first election of the Weimar Republic.
The SPD government was the power structure that directly empowered, then acquiesced to multiple coup attempts by the monarchist anti-democratic right wing.
Now, the Russian Social Democrat Party, on the other hand, won their war. So it's not necessarily the 'Social Democrat' part so much as the 'Maintaining Imperial Power Structures' part that the German SPD is faulted for.
The KPD also went on to try and do coalition with the Nazi right wing too, with likewise predictably terrible results.
Social Democrats? The ones that murdered Rosa and liebknecht?
Same as today they will turn their coat and collaborate, not a shred of doubt.